…When it comes to using adjustment layers and masks in order to improve the lighting…and the color in our photographs, there are…so many different techniques that we can use.…In this movie, I want to show you…another technique which will involve building a mask.…And then reusing or repurposing that mask with a different adjustment.…Well, with this portrait, one of the things that I want to do…is I want to bring in some brightness into the center of the photograph.…I also want to darken some of the outer edges,…and then increase the overall contrast and color saturation.…

In order to accomplish this, we'll…be creating three different adjustment layers.…Let's begin by creating our first.…Here we'll go ahead and click on the adjustment layer…icon for curves in order to build our first curves adjustment.…And in this case, I'm going to go ahead and…click and drag down, as we've seen before, this allows…us to darken our overall photograph.…Now, while this is darkening the background in a…nice way, I don't like how it's darkening the subject.…

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12/17/2013

Lighting is central to photography and most of it is captured during a photo shoot. However, you can often create amazing lighting effects after the photo is taken with Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop. Photographer and teacher Chris Orwig shows you how. First, you'll learn to modify exposure and enhance the color and quality of light with Camera Raw. Then turning to Photoshop, Chris shows how to mask corrections to a specific area of an image and add contrast and color with blending modes. Plus, learn to dodge and burn away shadows and add one or more light sources to your photos with the Lighting Effects filter.

Topics include:

Creating a more expressive photograph with Camera Raw

Correcting under- and overexposure

Improving light in certain areas of an image with masks and the Radial Filter